News & Insights

For most manufacturers, the hardest part of a new location isn’t the decision. It’s the wait. Equipment orders, hiring plans and production schedules don’t pause while a building goes up. That’s why the biggest story across our parks this quarter is a simple one: several of the buildings we’ve talked about all year are nearly […]

In the dawn of agentic AI and other advanced digital technologies into manufacturing and operations, the demands placed on industrial buildings are changing faster than the buildings themselves. Over their useful lives, facilities may accommodate multiple users, technologies, and operational models. Successful industrial development increasingly depends on flexibility… the ability to adapt rather than become […]

Do you remember the 1968 media fear frenzy put in everybody’s minds that food production was going to run short, and then we would all have mass starvation in the next decade? Or, maybe you remember in 1977 that the media said we were going to run out of proven oil reserves in 15 years. […]

Two new spec buildings at I-75 Exit 60 are under construction for 2027, in a park planned for 12 buildings and build-to-suit projects up to 1 million square feet, plus or minus. SWEETWATER, Tenn. (Oct. 20, 2026) The Hollingsworth Companies broke ground on Monday, Oct. 19, marking the start of Phase I at the new […]

The International Business Times spent some time with our CEO, Joe Hollingsworth, for a feature on what the manufacturing comeback is doing to industrial real estate. The piece is worth reading in full, and it comes down to one idea that has guided our company for a long time. When a company chooses a building, […]

When Fox Business wanted to explain why U.S. manufacturing just hit its highest level in more than four years, they went to someone who has spent five decades building for it. Our CEO, Joe Hollingsworth, joined Varney and Co. in August 2026 to break down the manufacturing surge and why so much of that capital […]

As we move into Q3 2026, Cookeville is the market worth leading with. One of our two single-tenant Class A buildings at Highlands Business Park was leased this quarter, which says a lot about the confidence companies are placing in the market. Cookeville is proving to be a place where manufacturers can find the building, […]

The Trump Administration focused their efforts in the One Big Beautiful Bill to create conditions that would incentivize the re-industrialization of the United States after multiple generations of presidential administrations doing the opposite. One of the strongest incentives offered is accelerated depreciation for “Qualified Production Properties”. Unless you happen to be a tax accountant, the […]

Harvey Mansfield’s (a philosopher who I learned to appreciate many years ago) opinion about America on its 250th birthday seems so appropriate to recite. We are actually a “paradox”. The US is both a young, brash nation AND the world’s oldest continuous democracy. The USA is a country that needs to renew itself every four […]